Case for military hair-brushes.



No. 65l,490. Patented lune l2, I900.

P. F. MURPHY & G. M. KNEUPEB.

cAsE FOR MILITARY HAIR BRUSHES.

Mar. 21, 1900) (Apphcatmn filed (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK F. MURPHY AND GEORGE M. KNEUPER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

CASE FOR MILITARY HAIR-BRUSHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,490, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed March 21, 1900. fierial No. 9,505. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that we, PATRICK F. MURPHY, a resident of New York, borough of Manhattan, county of New York, and GEORGE M. KNEUPER, a resident of New York, borough of Queens, county of Queens, State of New York, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cases for Military Hair-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a device whereby brushes may be efficiently held together for transportation and the like. Strictly speaking, the device is a band or inclosure for the sides and bristles of the brush, but is so constructed that it, together with the backs of the brushes, forms a case, and the brushes are efficiently held together and occupy the least possible space.

In the drawings we have shown a structure embodying our invention, it being understood, however, that this structure is shown for the purposes of illustration merely and that we do not confine our invention to what is shown in the drawings.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view showing the strap or band loosened.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the structure shown in Fig. 1, showing the band or strap buttoned together; and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3, showing the particular construction of the clips employed in the brush illustrated in the drawings.

In the drawings, ab represent military hairbrushes, which when not in use may have their bristles mesh, as shown in the drawings. Each of these brushes is provided with a suitable stiff or flexible back a b. As the band, which we shall describe hereinafter, is made of leather, we have in thet-present instance constructed these brush-backs of sole-leather. They may, however, be of other material.

Surrounding the bristles of the brushes is a band 0, provided with fastener members 0 0 shown inithe present instance as the two members of a ball-and-socket fastening. This band is of substantially the width of the space between the brush-backs when the bristles are meshed, as shown. This band is provided with any suitable number of clips, shown in the present instance as two clips. In the present instance we have sho wn two flat strips of metal d, having hooked ends. cl, which are adapted to engage the edges of the brushbaoks. Any equivalent of these clips may be employed without departing from the spirit of our invention. When the band, which is not necessarily of the width shown, is in place surrounding the bristles of the brushes and the clips are engaged with the backs of the brushes and the fastener members engage with each other, the brushes will be securely held together and will constitute a sort of box, the backs of the brushes being the ends of the box and the band the sides.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination of a band adapted to surround and protect the bristles of oppositely-placed brushes with a clip carried thereby for engaging the brush-backs.

2. The band 0 having clips adapted to engage brush-backs and a fastener for the ends of the band.

3. The band 0 having clips 01 with hooked ends d adapted to engage brush-backs, and a fastening device for the ends of the band.

PATRICK F..MURPI-IY. GEO. M. KNEUPER.

Witnesses:

Ocr'ro v. SQHRENK, GEO. E. MORSE. 

